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Give Digital camera footage the color and grain of your favorite film stocks

Ever since the introduction of Digital Cameras, digital evangelists have been saying how Film would eventually be superceeded and replaced. After several decades, this is finally happening. However, for many people, the look of the digital footage still leaves a lot to be desired and doesn't look as good straight out of the camera.

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What is it about film that people like so much?

Some people say that film has a 'magical' and 'organic' quality that can never be achieved by a digital camera. We take a more scientific approach. For many years, the film workflow has been to have the film scanned and then graded digitally. Both formats end up as digital files, we can compare them and find out the specific the differences.

Our tests have shown that film responds to colors in a different way. Let's look at an example - shot on Fuji Pro 160s, and the same image shot on a Canon 5D Mk II. Look specifically how the trees seem to 'pop' in the film image.

Ignoring the grain for the moment, zooming in shows that the hue and saturation of the trees is quite different:

Let's take an average of the colors:

The film trees are warmer, containing more red than the digital trees.

To get the digital to match the film we should:
Increase the amount of Red by 20%
Increase the amount of Green by 15%
Increase the amount of Blue by 7%
Increase the saturation from 38% to 50%
To make these changes in your grading software would be technically possible, but to do so you would need to know what the green color of the film was supposed to look like, and also make sure that you made the change only to the green colors in the image.

Now imagine performing the above analysis on every hue and saturation of the color spectrum, adding accurate grain, modeled on the grain response of the film stocks. This is FilmConvert!

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System Requirements

Windows

Windows 7 sp1 and up. (64 bit only)

Requires Avid Media Composer 7 or 8.

An OpenCL version 1.1 capable graphics card and runtime system.
If your machine does not have an OpenCL.dll, the plugin will not load.

For GPU rendering:

HD rendering requires a minimum of 256 Mb of video memory

4k rendering requires a minimum of 1 Gb of video memory.

macOS

Requires Avid Media Composer 7 or 8.

OSX 10.8.5 or above. OSX 10.9+ is recommended.

An OpenCL version 1.1 capable graphics card and runtime system.
If your machine does not have an OpenCL.dll, the plugin will not load.

For GPU acceleration:

HD rendering requires a minimum of 256 Mb of video memory

4k rendering requires a minimum of 1 Gb of video memory.

FilmConvert works on any Digital Camera footage.

For more accurate results, FilmConvert has released free data packs with profiles of various cameras. Currently released packs:

Apple iPhone

Arri Alexa GoPro Hero4

Black Magic Pocket Nikon D7000

BMCC Nikon D800

BMCC 4K Panasonic GH2

BlackMagic URSA Mini 4.6k

Canon 1DC Panasonic GH3

Canon 550D / T2i Panasonic GH4 + V-Log

Canon 5D MkII RED

Canon 5D MkIII Red Dragon

Canon 600D / T3i Sony A7r mk2

Canon 6D Sony A7s

Canon 7D / 60D Sony A7s mk2

Canon 80D

Canon C100 Sony EX1 / EX3

Canon C100 mk II Sony F55

Canon C200

Canon C300 Sony FS5

Canon C300 mkII

Canon XC10

Canon XF300 Sony FS7

Digital Bolex D16 Sony FS700 / FS100

DJI Inspire 1 / Phantom 3

DJI Mavic Pro

DJI Phantom 4 / Osmo

DJI Phantom 4 Pro

DJI X5

DJI X5R

Fujifilm XT2

GoPro Hero3

GoPro Hero4

GoPro Hero5

Kinefinity KineMAX 6K

Kinefinity KineMINI 4K

Nikon D7000

Nikon D750

Nikon D800

Panasonic DVX200

Panasonic GH2

Panasonic GH3

Panasonic GH4 + V-Log

Panasonic GH5

Panasonic GH5S

Panasonic VariCam LT

RED One

Red Helium EPIC-W

Red Helium - Weapon

Red Dragon

Samsung NX1

Sony a6300

Sony a6500

Sony A7r mk2

Sony A7s

Sony A7s mk2

Sony AX700

Sony EX1 / EX3

Sony F55

Sony FDR X3000

Sony FS5

Sony FS7

Sony FS700 / FS100

Sony RX100 IV - RX10 II

Sony RX100 V

Until your camera is added, try using the default profile, which is accurate for most cameras.

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